🎅☃️❄️Ho-Ho-Holiday Movie Showdown🎄🤶📽

[Bry1313]

In the third draft of the bracket it was Lethal Weapon against It's a Wonderful Life in a battle of suicidal main characters but I decided it was a bit too dark for the holidays.

I’ll enjoy offing George Bailey regardless

 

[TheMrBurns]

Miracle on 34th St but not sure how either of these had a higher seed than Scrooged

The seeding was random-ish... if I could make an interesting parallel between two movies I lumped them together.

 

[Lmizzler]

So which one are we picking now? I'm lost.

 

[orangecurious]

Miracle of the Little Women... no, wait, Little Women on 34th St.

oh, i dunno, not fussed either way

 

[Lmizzler]

Your round 3 winner by technical knockout (8-1), Die Hard! It will move on to yippee kai-yay Scrooged in the quarter finals while poor Jack Skelington returns to Halloween Town in shame... though I guess that's a good thing for him, like the Adams Family where bad is good? Regardless, on to the next battle.

Battle #4

Miracle on 34th Street

vs.

Little Women

In the corner to my right, a movie so wonderful it would have been an absolute travesty to ever consider remaking it. And in the corner to my left, a movie so wonderful it would have been an absolute travesty to ever consider remaking it. One of these is my all time favourite holiday movie. So let the battle of the yeah-I-saw-the-remake-wasn't-nearly-as-good-as-the-original movies commence.

Got it!

Miracle on 34th St

 

[barefootgirl69]

Miracle of the Little Women... no, wait, Little Women on 34th St.

oh, i dunno, not fussed either way

Little Women on 34th Street. Sounds like a Lit movie.

 

[orangecurious]

Little Women on 34th Street. Sounds like a Lit movie.

i thought it sounded dodgy in my head as i was writing it

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Miracle, because it's an annual staple for me (the remake is trash).

 

[BrendaBear]

Miracle of the Little Women... no, wait, Little Women on 34th St.

oh, i dunno, not fussed either way

Does this qualify as something you “can’t be arsed with?”

 

[TheMrBurns]

With less than 3 hours left to vote these little women are taking a pounding. This could be our first true knockout of the tournament, Little Women getting a lot of love in the thread but 0 votes so far.

 

[TomTeacher19]

Miracle. Don't even consider the other one to be a Christmas movie.

 

[Photog1rl]

Another vote for Miracle.

 

[TheMrBurns]

Your winner of Battle #4 by knockout (10-0), Miracle on 34th Street! It moves on to face The Muppet Christmas Carol in the quarterfinals as Little Women is attended to by medical personnel... which will probably involve leaches. But now on to our next card.

Battle #4

Home Alone

vs.

The Santa Clause

In the corner to my right, another movie with many regrettable sequels, and the second best movie featuring Macaulay Culkin and John Candy with a record of seven concussions, third degree burns, and horrific bodily trauma, Home Alone. In the corner on my left with a record of one kill and two actually watchable sequels, The Santa Clause. Let the battle of failed Holiday Ho-Ho-Home invasions begin!

 

[BrendaBear]

Battle #4

Home Alone

vs.

The Santa Clause

The Santa Clause

 

[TomTeacher19]

That is a really tough call. Both are classics and watched every year around these parts. It feels bad to not pick either one, but I think in the end we're going with Santa Clause.

 

[DannieB]

These are tough! I keep going back and forth but I’m gonna stick with The Santa Clause…

 

[orangecurious]

going with Home Alone because... dunno, just...

 

[Cwtchseeker]

Home Alone but only just… they’re both great but Home Alone was a cult and modern classic…

 

[Photog1rl]

I've never watched Home Alone so I have to go with The Santa Clause since I've seen it.

 

[BDA73]

Home Alone

 

[barefootgirl69]

I love of these movies, but HOME ALONE is my final answer!

 

[TheMrBurns]

I've never watched Home Alone so I have to go with The Santa Clause since I've seen it.

It and all its bastard sequels are on Disney+

 

[Deadfreak]

Home alone

 

[TheMrBurns]

Battle #5 is a dead heat with only one vote separating the two contestants. There's a little over 3 hours left to vote and it's anyone's for the taking. And now for another musical interlude from an honourable mention that was going to be in a "black and white New England Christmas showdown" with White Christmas until I remembered that A Christmas Story existed, Christmas in Connecticut

 

[Lmizzler]